I'm getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it's really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called […]
Update: Please note that the project appears abandoned. It has not been updated for a long time and won't work in recent versions of the Firefox web browser anymore. Mozilla has added […]
If you send information regularly to friends or colleagues using email you may find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Lets say you want to share a website you just […]
With the much anticipated release of Firefox 3, Mozilla also wants to set a Guiness Record of the "most downloaded software in 24 hours". I think that is put just plain stupidly, […]
If you are not an English native speaker you will encounter words that you do not know. This does not only include the meaning of the word but also its pronunciation which […]
Bookmark Permissions is a security add-on for the Firefox browser that is compatible with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta. The idea is to set specific permissions for individual bookmarks that override […]
I explained in the article Working With Several Firefox Profiles how I'm using several Firefox profiles for certain tasks like normal surfing, testing and visiting secure websites. I'm using one profile to […]
I was always annoyed by the fact that I had to click the links on search result pages instead of having another way to open them by using the keyboard. I'm a […]
One of the new interesting features in Firefox 3 is the revamped add-ons manager that now recommends add-ons that are compatible to a user's Firefox version. It would be interesting to see […]
Firefox's Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode similar to the Safe Mode feature of the Windows operating system. It basically launches Firefox in a default state which can be useful if something […]
I have written an article about Flash Cookies last year and it turned out that several users did not know they existed and were grateful that they were now able to take […]
Referrer is a variable that is automatically transferred with your requests that you make on the Internet. If you click on the link to the RefControl Firefox add-on on this site, the […]
Stefan covered the Firefox add-on brief a few days ago which is an add-on for Firefox that adds a very basic RSS Feed Reader to the browser. I use Netvibes as my […]
Have you ever asked yourself if a certain file is inside an archive that has been published on a website? Did you download the archive from that website only to find out […]
The major issue that I see with all those Web 2.0 social networking websites is that there is no central administration for all the sites that you are a member of but […]
I read Stefan's review of the Firefox Brief today which I found interesting in itself. I did learn about dynamic bookmarks in Firefox from the article on top of it. I have […]
The concept of RSS or newsfeeds in general seemed quite appealing to me the moment I first heard (or read?) about it. But I never managed to find a way to utilize […]
In the last days I have been looking for a Firefox extension that would make it possible to open multiple bookmarks (and History items) at once. What I mean with this is […]
Not all Firefox add-ons get the news coverage that they deserve. Some are mentioned on every tech site in the world while others are known to only a handful of Firefox users […]
Copying texts and other elements of a website in Firefox always includes the format of the elements. This means that a text with a headline will exactly look alike after pasting it […]
I have experienced some erratic unexplainable behavior lately after I installed a couple of applications on a computer system running the Windows operating system. After some digging around in the depths of […]
I recently ran into the error message "The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors" twice in the last day and I was wondering if it was related to my […]
Some websites, especially commercial ones, try to increase their pageviews (and thus also advertising revenue) by separating single articles onto several pages. A user who wants to read the complete article has […]
Randy was commenting on today's article about the use of several Firefox profiles and pointed out that he would love a list of the security add-ons that I'm using in my secure […]
Most Firefox users work only with one Firefox profile. Well, this should not surprise a lot because one profile is, of course, sufficient for most tasks. Plus, the whole profile management functionality […]
Many Firefox extensions add their own entries to the Firefox configuration that you can access by typing about:config in the address bar of Firefox, or by opening the file prefs.js directly from […]
I'm always looking for new Firefox add-ons that speed up my browsing and Quick Drag is exactly one of those useful add-ons. It basically makes it possible to drag and drop elements […]
I'm sometimes amazed by new Firefox extensions that get developed. One of those that surely has its uses is the Firefox iPhone Emulator extension which is currently an experimental build. Don't expect […]
Links are neutral at the beginning. They can display any text and link to any kind of file the webmaster decides they should link to. This can be sometimes confusing, sometimes misleading […]
I don't know how it is in the States but SMS are a phenomena in Europe. It's a very easy and foolproof way to send someone a short message without having to […]
I recently encountered a problem with some of the fonts that Firefox was using to display website contents. I changed default system fonts in Windows XP to Windows Vista fonts and since […]
If you are a regular on the Internet you have experienced your share of mistyped urls that don't let you click the link because it is not recognized as one by the […]
Cookies are used for two main purposes basically. The first is to remember that a user is already logged in on a website and the second to track user actions. While the […]
There are several ways that allow you to test Firefox 3 without interfering with Firefox 2 if that browser is also installed on your system. If you simply install the regular Firefox […]
When you download a file in Internet Explorer you get the option to run or save it. The run option however is not available in Firefox by default, you can only save […]
Google likes basic designs that just work. Take a look at their search engine or Gmail to know what I mean. Now you all know that I do not have a problem […]
I occasionally come upon a website that uses a font size that is either too large or to small and I usually adjust it with the mouse wheel while holding down the […]
This is an interesting experiment. I'm writing about the Firefox extension Zemanta while testing it at the same time. Zemanta is a tool for bloggers, it currently supports the blogging platforms Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress blogs. It adds suggestions and recommendations while you are writing an article by analyzing the content of the article.
Initially I wanted to write about a new Firefox add-on that I discovered recently but since I failed to download the add-on from the new Firefox add-ons website I decided to write […]
I'm using the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to access websites with a click - or two - of the mouse button. Space is limited there however and I'm using another way to […]
